“We need to assume that COVID-19 is everywhere right now,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti at his Wednesday Coronavirus briefing. He reported 3,266 new coronavirus cases in the reg…
Garcetti said there had been a near-record 2,207 COVID-related hospitalizations in L.A. County as of Wednesday. That’s just 25 patients below the all-time high of 2,232, which was recorded on Monday. It marked the fourth day in a row that hospitalizations were above 2,000.
The number of staffed ICU beds is “hovering between 130-160 beds on a given day,” said Ghaly. That’s for a population of 10 million. Garcetti said there were currently 623 ICU patients with coronavirus. That’s a 51 percent increase in the past month. When asked under what conditions the city would shut down again, the mayor said, “If we did see double digit growth of one of those key indicators — positivity, hospitalizations — yes, of course” the city would take action.
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